On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:37 PM, UQ0502 <[email protected]> wrote: > don't forget that Italy never achieved a real democracy status by western > standards. > have a look at Amnesty International reports, and the freedom of press > reports, and you'll find out things you wouldn't expect out of a EU member > country! >
italy's a strange place. there seems to be a definite distance from what is written on the law and what is common practice. in italy we have one of the law systems with the highest number of laws. even containing laws contradicting or in direct opposition of other laws. you go and buy a pack of cigarettes: there's probabily 232 laws ruling the thing, some saying you can buy the box, some sayig you can't, some saying you can only if you filled in a special module 12 years ago. this situation is due to a continuous, historical, powerful influence of organized crime on the institutions. And we're not only speaking about mafia, camorra and the like. But also the economic "mafia" of the financial/industrial/commercial organizations: buildings, highways, televisions, everything's got a mafia of their own. italy is almost a no-hope situation. it really is a nation sitting on the edge of a continuous, looped "end-of-history" situation. paradoxically, this is a situation that is both desperate and engaging, as the generalized irony, and frustration, whining, and anger, and will-for-confrontation, all mixed together, provide quite a few instants of pure illumination. some of which emerged in many of the most significant actvist, political and artistic movements of the last decades. the real problem is on how italy will be able to confront the innovation issues of the near future. There just seems to be a complete lack of formal, dedicated approaches that are needed to handle and valorize the perspectives brought on by technology, networks and such.. so much that people knowing how to do stuff tend to running away from italy like hell :) ciao! xDxD
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